'Mixe Indian, Mexico, 1980' (1980)
Silver gelatin print, Edition of 50Signed by the ArtistPrice subject to availability
(6" x 6")
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six foot person and work to scale
Harry Callahan
1912 - 99
Harry Callahan was an American photographer and teacher, whose highly personal, masterfully realised works have shaped modern photography his works display exquisite control over the composition, tones, and textures used to portray his subjects. Stark, disturbing photographs of people caught up in the pressures of city life are dramatised by Callahan's use of shadow and bright sunlight. Callahan's work was a deeply personal response to his own life and as a result, he photographed his wife, Eleanor, and daughter, Barbara, and the streets, scenes and buildings of cities where he lived, showing a strong sense of line and form, and light and darkness. His photographs were products of a loving husband and father and a masterful artist.
He was well known to encourage his students to turn their cameras on their lives, and he led by example. Even as he did this he was not sentimental, romantic or emotional. Eleanor was essential to his art from 1947 to 1960. He photographed her everywhere at home, in the city streets, in the landscape; alone, with their daughter, in black and white and in color, nude and clothed, distant and close. He tried every technical experiment; double and triple exposure, blurs, large camera and small. The attitude of respect and warmth permeates the endeavor.
Callahan was born in Detroit, Michigan. After studying engineering at Michigan State University, he worked for Chrysler Motors from 1934 to 1944. He took up photography as a hobby in 1938 and in the 1940s began to produce photographs whose quality was recognized by other photographers. Callahan left almost no written records--no diaries, letters, scrapbooks or teaching notes. His technical photographic method was to go out almost every morning, walk the city he lived in and take numerous pictures. He then spent almost every afternoon making proof prints of that day's best negatives. Yet, for all his photographic activity, Callahan, at his own estimation, produced no more than half a dozen final images a year.
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